Predicting the end of the world - FAIL

December 18, 2012 |By JAKE ELLISON

Notable predictions of the end

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Christopher Columbus, you may remember, was an explorer and “discoverer” but he was also a doomsdayer! Here’s how one university professor put it for a PBS series on the apocalypse: … if we look at the history of Columbus and some of his writings, particularly his letters and in the ‘Book of Prophecies’ that he put together, we can see that Columbus thought of himself very much in terms of the apocalyptic tradition. And he felt that his voyages of discovery were ushering in a millennial age, an age of a Last World Emperor, a Spanish Last World Emperor, who would recapture the holy apocalyptic city of Jerusalem and initiate a messianic period.” (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

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Christopher Columbus, you may remember, was an explorer and “discoverer” but he was also a doomsdayer! Here’s how one university professor put it for a PBS series on the apocalypse: … if we look at the history of Columbus and some of his writings, particularly his letters and in the ‘Book of Prophecies’ that he put together, we can see that Columbus thought of himself very much in terms of the apocalyptic tradition. And he felt that his voyages of discovery were ushering in a millennial age, an age of a Last World Emperor, a Spanish Last World Emperor, who would recapture the holy apocalyptic city of Jerusalem and initiate a messianic period.” (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)